You want to set up a tall commercial building for your multifaceted business and you have to serve refreshments to your employees every day. It would be extravagant of you to set up a kitchen on every floor used by your employees. Additionally, you can also use too much money if you need waiters to walk around manually with delicacies and serve everyone in the office. Thankfully, vertically moving dumbwaiters can come to your rescue and help you move refreshments from one floor to the other. Your employees can pick the refreshments from centralised landing points.

Here is the best guide for choosing and installing a dumbwaiter in your workplace:

Installation, Travel and Landing

To get the most of your dumbwaiter, you must put the installation procedures side by side with the functioning of your mini- elevator. Ideally, the office kitchen should be the final landing destination for the machine so that your kitchen staff have an easy time loading and unloading stuff from the dumbwaiter. However, some building designs may not support this in one motion. If you need to install the dumbwaiter in another location, you should use the combination of both vertical and horizontal movements so that it ends up in the kitchen. Additionally, try installing the dumbwaiter away from distractions such as toilets and bathrooms for ease of travel and landing.

Safety Features

Safety features are also important when choosing and installing and dumbwaiters. Small as these machines may be, they use electricity and hoisting mechanisms to move from one place to another. This can lead to severe accidents when the machines are in use. A good dumbwaiter should come with interlocks on the doors. Their work is to prevent access to the inside of the dumbwaiter whenever the elevator is in motion. Additionally, the electric cables should be well-insulated to prevent any short circuits in case fluids spill when the machine is moving.

The Materials

The materials used to make the dumbwaiter is another important consideration. It is elemental for standing up to corrosion and other rigours of day-to-day use. Preferably, you should go for a machine made from powder-coated heavy-duty steel, ordinary stainless steel aluminium. These materials allow you to clean and maintain the elevator using a variety of techniques and cleaning agents.  

The Weight Limitation

For ordinary kitchen operations, dumbwaiter able to carry anything between forty-five and one hundred kilogrammes will suffice. Such a dumbwaiter can even support the weight of a technician who needs to get in and carry out repairs.